#Retro Computing

I upgrade my Atari STFM to 4MB of RAM using a Marpet XTra RAM Deluxe board

Yesterday I recapped my ST’s PSU which went well, nothing exploded. However when trying to boot the machine it kept crashing, especially when it went to the desktop.

Come with me for a nostalgic trip around my Atari ST that I had has a child that has been sat unopened for the past 10 years. In this video I go through the hardware, what I used to do with the Atari ST and make a list of future improvements and fixes to make.

An overview of the Spectrum Next’s Layer 2 bitmap display

How to get started programming the ZX Spectrum Next

I found a real bitmap display for the RC2014 and here’s how I made it work.

I turned a Raspberry Pi 400 into a C devkit for the RC2014.

Writing more optimised assembly to improve the speed of the Conway’s Life algorithm

Upgrading my BBC Micro to use a Gotek floppy emulator, 1770 disk controller and a Raspberry Pi co-processor.

Now I’ve gained an understanding of assembly programming, let’s look at how they tried to teach us computer science in the 1980s…